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Summary: Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their testimonies provide a portrait of the inner workings of the camp in unrivalled detail-from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 REEReel, Monte
Summary: In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.127 REERees-Jones, Trevor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REES-JONES, TREVOR REECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.085` REEBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLUMBUS CHRISTOPHER BERLeamer, Laurence
Summary: Offering an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories help chart the course of the enigmatic director's career, this mesmerizing account takes a modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed-and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 LEABrees, Drew
Summary: Drew's inspiring message of hope and resilience proves that with enough faith, determination, and heart, you can overcome any obstacle life throws your way, and not only bounce back but come back stronger than you ever imagined possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS BERBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: "A middle grade adaptation of Bergreen's adult title of the same name, about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 BERAnholt, Laurence.
Summary: A brief biography of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton in 1811 when she was twelve led to a life-long interest in fossils and other important discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANNBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: A portrait of the thirteenth-century explorer, adventurer, and global traveler follows Marco Polo from his youth in Venice to his journey to Asia and role in the court of Kublai Khan, to his return to Europe, and discusses his influence on the history of his era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POLO, MARCO BERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld PoloBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: "A tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance; a startling anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans; and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.92 BERBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: Publisher's description: Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BERLeamer, Laurence
Summary: Describes the brutal killing of a young black man and subsequent conviction of two Klansmen in 1981 Alabama and the civil suit that exposed the true motives and philosophy of the organization and ultimately bankrupted them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 LEALuckinbill, Laurence
Summary: "Overflowing with his love of nature, adventure, and justice, Teddy illustrates the life of a man for whom being known as one of America's greatest presidents is but one of his notable accomplishments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Reckoning 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUCBergreen, Laurence
Summary: "The central coast of China, 1405. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951 BERLeamer, Laurence.
Summary: Focuses on Joseph P. Kennedy's sons and grandsons in the years following the assassination of JFK and features an account of John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s life as remembered by ten of his closest friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KENNEDY FAMILY LEAMaslon, Laurence.
Summary: Presents a history of the Broadway musical theater, including summaries of the shows, photographs of the stars, posters, sheet music, production stills, and essays by theater luminaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.14 KANRees, Paul A.
Summary: Robert Plant is a living legend. The front man of Led Zeppelin, one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time, Plant defined the very notion of what it means to be a rock god. The sheer scale of Led Zeppelin's success is extraordinary. In the United States alone they have sold seventy million records, a figure surpassed only by the Beatles, while "Stairway to Heaven," the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLANT, ROBERT REEFaruqi, Reem
Summary: "From the author of Lailah's Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about Maryam Faruqi, the founder of the Happy Home Schools, which provided education to thousands of girls across Pakistan at a time when girls weren't encouraged to go to school. Milloo lives in a time when school is considered unnecessary for girls. But to Milloo, education is essential. When Milloo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 FARHarwood, Laurence
Contents: Introduction -- Friends at Oxford -- Lovers of literature -- Walking tours -- Friendship after Oxford -- Godfather Jack -- My letters from my godfather -- My mother's death -- My failure at Oxford -- Jack's illness and marriage to Joy Davidman -- Jack's last years -- Jack's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 HARReef, Catherine.
Summary: Traces the life of the American Jewish composer who created a new kind of music that has lasted beyond the fashion of his time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GERSHWIN REEReese, Trystan
Summary: "An LGBTQ family's inspiring story of building a loving home, with lessons all families can use"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REESE, TRYSTAN REEWitherspoon, Reese
Summary: Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women "whiskey in a teacup." We may be delicate and ornamental on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WITHERSPOON, REESE WITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WHITHERSPOON WHIReef, Catherine
Summary: "A biography for young adult readers on Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she rectified horrifying conditions and made nightly rounds to check on patients, saving hundreds of lives and sparking worldwide healthcare reform"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017